Enourmous increase in the volume of spam e-mail sent

zekrahminator · Dec 31, 2006

Companies that are low enough to resort to sending out spam e-mails as advertising have recently really been working hard. Thanks to images in spam messages, a surge in botnets (computers that are hijacked by viruses to send out spam emails), a high availability of domains for spammers and underdeveloped spam filters, spammers have managed to increase their spam volume by 35%. This exceeds the expectations of internet analysts, and means that spammed advertisements now represent 90% of all e-mails on the internet.

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Jimmy 2004 · Dec 31, 2006

90%????????????????? That's crazy

EviLZeD · Dec 31, 2006

omg yea thats so fkin irratating to find out lol

pt · Dec 31, 2006

EviLZeD said:
omg yea thats so fkin irratating to find out lol

fking spam :mad:

jocksteeluk · Jan 1, 2007

i think spam has gone down, i havent received one of those "enlarge you penis" spam emails for about 2 years and i only empty my spam folder half as much as i used to, max spam filter setting ftw!

aximbigfan · Jan 1, 2007

DEAR FRIEND I IS SORRY 2 REPORT THAT THE VERY LATE SUN OF THE NIGERIAN PRESIDENT HAS PAST, IN HIZ WAKE HE HAZ LEFT A BANK ACOUNT WITH THE SUM OF $12142141423423534563464565464565654 IN IT. PLEASE GIVE US 1NMILLION TO ACCESS THE ACOUNT AND YOU WILL GET ALL OF THE MOENey IN RETURN.

^that is how most spam is. pretty much every word is misspelled and frankly most people who fall for those scams deserve to. i mean come on, how can you be so stupid...

chris

zekrahminator · Jan 1, 2007

Naw, that's phishing, the classic spam is "dear sir,
VIAGRA CIALIS Pr0N 4 Ph4333!!!!!!111!1!!1!!!eleven!!!!one!!!111!111".

aximbigfan · Jan 1, 2007

zekrahminator said:
Naw, that's phishing, the classic spam is "dear sir,
VIAGRA CIALIS Pr0N 4 Ph4333!!!!!!111!1!!1!!!eleven!!!!one!!!111!111".

ZOMG!!!!!!11111 free v1@graz!!!!!!

actually to counter your "dear sir" thing, i have recived more spam emails that said "dear friend" then "dear sir."

chris

zekrahminator · Jan 1, 2007

Oh that's right, you only get "dear sir" when they're trying to get you to "inherit" some "dead Nigerian's" money

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bornfree · Jan 1, 2007

The past two weeks my SPAM e-mail volume has been outrageous... despite SPAM filtering by my ISP.

cdawall · Jan 1, 2007

mine has actually gone down from 130 a month to 75 woop woop

WarEagleAU · Jan 1, 2007

I get these damn cash loan emails. Its pissing me off. Unsubscribe links seem to make you subscribe to more and more

Easy Rhino · Jan 2, 2007

jocksteeluk said:
i think spam has gone down, i havent received one of those "enlarge you penis" spam emails for about 2 years and i only empty my spam folder half as much as i used to, max spam filter setting ftw!

your spam is down cause you got your penis enlarged, so they dont send you emails anymore.

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